Behavioral Economics (Spring, 2013)

  Course Number: ECON/FIN 209f
Call Number: 9391
Instructor(s): Heimer, Rawley
Time(s): Th 12:30 - 03:30 PM; Sachar, 115
Description: Prerequisites: ECON 207f or 208f, FIN 201a and FIN 202a. How do economics agents make decisions? Though economists historically assumed that decisions are made "rationally," the evidence suggests otherwise. Examines evidence on human decision-making processes culled from many disciplines. Students investigate how those processes can explain observed patterns in economic and financial behavior. They also analyze how such behavior can explain observed market phenomena that would not emerge if agents were "personally rational."
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